Kunshan Football Club ( zh, 昆山足球俱乐部), or simply Kunshan F.C., is a professional Chinese association football club based in Kunshan, Jiangsu,
China
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. They currently participate in the Chinese Super League, under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). Their home stadium is the 30,000 capacity
Kunshan Stadium
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. The club was founded on 12 December 2014 as an amateur membership club called Zhenjiang Huasa F.C. before moving to Kunshan where the Kunshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government became their majority shareholders.
History
Zhenjiang Huasa, whose members are mainly the fans of FC Barcelona in China, was founded on 12 December 2014. Huasa, meaning ''Chinese Barca'', was used as the club's name. They played in the
2016 China Amateur Football League
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and won the winners of 2016 Jiangsu Provincial Football League. Zhenjiang Huasa finished the 6th place in the national finals and won promotion to
2017 China League Two
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Team changes
To League Two ...
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In December 2018, Zhenjiang Huasa moved to Kunshan and changed their name to Kunshan F.C.. With the support of the Kunshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government as well as private financing the club were able to gain stability, improve their position to ninth and gain a total of 80310 fans with the highest average attendance of 5534 at the end of the 2019 league season. While the club finished in ninth at the end of the season they were granted promotion to the second tier, due to the expansion of the league and disbandment of Tianjin Tianhai.
In their debut season within the second tier, the clubs Head, Gao Yao was able to guide the team to a third place finish, however unable to improve upon these results in the following season he was let go by the club on 16 September 2021 and replaced by
Sergio Zarco Díaz
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. In the
2022 China League One
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Format
On 12 May 2022, the Chinese Football ...
campaign, Sergio was able to gain promotion to the top tier for the first time in the clubs history by winning the division with the highest recorded points total in Chinese history for the division.
Li Dong
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Club career
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(2016–2017)
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Dragan Stančić
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Career
Stančić has been a member of th ...
(caretaker) (2017)
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Goran Miscevic
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Career
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Dragan Okuka
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Sergio Zarco Díaz
Sergio may refer to:
* Sergio (given name), for people with the given name Sergio
* Sergio (carbonado), the largest rough diamond ever found
* ''Sergio'' (album), a 1994 album by Sergio Blass
* ''Sergio'' (2009 film), a documentary film
* ''S ...
(2021–)
Results
All-time league rankings
''As of the end of 2021 season.''
* In group stage.
Key
* Pld = Played
* W = Games won
* D = Games drawn
* L = Games lost
* F = Goals for
* A = Goals against
* Pts = Points
* Pos = Final position
* DNQ = Did not qualify
* DNE = Did not enter
* NH = Not Held
* – = Does Not Exist
* R1 = Round 1
* R2 = Round 2
* R3 = Round 3
* R4 = Round 4
* F = Final
* SF = Semi-finals
* QF = Quarter-finals
* R16 = Round of 16
* Group = Group stage
* GS2 = Second Group stage
* QR1 = First Qualifying Round
* QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
* QR3 = Third Qualifying Round